Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Allen & Unwin has continued to expand the Murdoch Books publishing team, with Diana Hill, Jane Morrow and Corinne Roberts joining Murdoch Books as publishers. A&U publishing director Sue Hines...

Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Bronwyn Halliday, former director of the State Library of South Australia (SLSA), has died. Halliday was director of the SLSA from 2000 to 2004, during which time she oversaw the...

Monday, 8 July 2013
After winning the 2013 Miles Franklin Literary Award, Michelle de Kretser’s Questions of Travel (A&U) is in first place on the fastest movers chart this week. Questions of Travel has also...

Monday, 8 July 2013
Kevin Ormsby has retired from the position of publishing manager at RMIT Publishing in Melbourne after eight years at the company. Prior to joining RMIT Publishing in 2006, Ormsby held a...

Monday, 8 July 2013
A festival of Australian and New Zealand literature and arts will be held in London for the first time in May 2014. The four-day festival, which covers literature, theatre, film...

Friday, 5 July 2013
The shortlist for this year’s Australian Christian Book of the Year Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: A Faith to Live By (Roland Ashby, Mosaic Press) Driven by...

Friday, 5 July 2013
Two books published by Melbourne-based university presses have won this year’s Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award. Tiwi: Arts, History, Culture by Jennifer Isaacs, published by Melbourne University Press’...

Thursday, 4 July 2013
The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas in Melbourne has announced the appointment of Simon Abrahams to the role of head of programming and Jaclyn Booton to the newly...

Thursday, 4 July 2013
Speech Pathology Australia (SPA) has announced the shortlists for this year’s Book of the Year Awards.  The shortlists include 40 books across four categories: Young Children, Lower Primary, Upper Primary and Indigenous Children. The...

Wednesday, 3 July 2013
The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced a digital distribution partnership with Ingram’s CoreSource platform, which will replace its current Digital Distribution Service. SPN is offering CoreSource to its members at...

Wednesday, 3 July 2013
The management of HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand has moved from the UK to the US following a restructure of the publisher’s international businesses, reports the Bookseller. The restructure, which also sees...

Wednesday, 3 July 2013
HarperCollins New Zealand has appointed journalist and editor Finlay Macdonald to the newly created position of contract publisher to ‘steer its local publishing program’.   Macdonald, who begins with HarperCollins...

Wednesday, 3 July 2013
In the July issue of Australian Book Review (ABR), editor Peter Rose has raised concerns over the Melbourne Writers Festival’s (MWF) decision to feature the London Review of Books (LRB) in...

Wednesday, 3 July 2013
Paul Alford, owner of book distributor TB Clarke and long-time member of the Australian publishing industry, has died. Alford previously held positions with William Collins, HarperCollins and Pan Macmillan, among others, in...

Wednesday, 3 July 2013
New Zealand publisher and literary agent Ray Richard has died, aged 92. On behalf of the Publishers Association of New Zealand, Kevin Chapman writes: ‘The publishing industry has lost a...

Wednesday, 3 July 2013
‘A deal like this effectively excludes sixty percent of the book buying market’—Australian Booksellers Association president and managing director of Australian Library Services Patricia Genat on Steve Waugh’s decision to...

Tuesday, 2 July 2013
Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser (A&U) has won this year’s Australian Literary Society (ALS) Gold Medal. De Kretser was announced as the winner of the award on 2 July ahead...

Tuesday, 2 July 2013
The members of the new Board of the Australia Council for the Arts have been announced following the passage of the Australia Council Act 2013.  As previously reported by Books+Publishing,...

Tuesday, 2 July 2013
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold Polish translation rights to Golden Earrings (Belinda Alexandra); Norweigan translation rights to Chasing the Light (Jesse Blackadder); and ANZ English-language audio rights to Bittersweet (Colleen McCullough)....

Monday, 1 July 2013
Scribe has launched a new prize for young nonfiction writers, run in partnership with Express Media. The Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers is open to writers aged 30 years or...

Monday, 1 July 2013
A man returns to his childhood home in Sussex, England, to attend a funeral. As he sits by a pond his past comes flooding back to him about a remarkable girl...

Monday, 1 July 2013
The merger of two of the world’s largest publishing companies, Penguin and Random House, has been completed. Random House parent company Bertelsmann said in a statement this week that it...

Friday, 28 June 2013
Three novels by Australian authors are among the 22 titles that will feature in a new promotional campaign by the American Booksellers Association, called Indies Introduce Debut Authors. Graeme Simsion’s...

Friday, 28 June 2013
The finalists for the 2013 Ruby Romantic Book of the Year awards have been announced. The finalists in each category are: Long Romance Bride by Mistake (Anne Gracie, Michael Joseph)...

Friday, 28 June 2013
Australia is ranked in the top three international export markets that contributed to English-language print and ebook sales for US trade publishers in 2012, according to the American Publishers Association...